Sex has become one of the biggest driving forces in today’s society. In January 2006, Save America Ministries released, “Sexual Seduction of the Union: A Sexual Portrait of American Life,” a study on sexual beliefs and activities in America. The results are staggering: “40% of 9th graders have had sexual intercourse… 50% of high schoolers admit having engaged in intercourse… 50% of teens have engaged in oral sex.” Furthermore, “52% of American women have sex before 18, but 75% have sex before marriage… 2/3 of teens are sexually active by the end of high school, despite 89% having attended sex education classes... 60-70% of “Christian” men admit seeking out pornography…”[1] The list goes on, and it only gets worse. We live in a society that has turned its back on God and sought sex in place of Him, mistaking sex, lust, and infatuation for love. Hollywood flaunts a false image of romance with physical attraction at its core. Movies tell us that physical attraction and sex lead to love, but this image of love could not be further from the truth.

The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF), a denomination which splintered from the SBC in 1991 over theological differences, has agreed to start hiring homosexuals for denominational staffing positions. There are a number of churches that affiliate both with the CBF and the SBC. The CBF will continue to take into consideration the sexual orientation of some of its position hiring, but not all. The new hiring policy was announced by the CBF on February 9.

The CBF has had a ban on hiring “practicing homosexuals for approximately 18 years, but the policy that seemed scandalously liberal by the standards of the turn of the century (because use of the word “practicing” leaves room for celibate homosexuals) is now deemed not liberal enough. Instead, the CBF governing body has stated that it will “consider” the sexuality of proposed staff or missionaries, but unlike the 18-year-old policy now replaced, it will not ban them from service.

]]>jbayard316@verizon.net (Jeff Bayard)Biblical SexualitySun, 25 Feb 2018 21:51:49 -0500Gay Olympians are accidentally proving why same-sex ‘marriage’ is wronghttp://vachristian.org/Biblical-Sexuality/Gay-Olympians-are-accidentally-proving-why-same-sex-marriage-is-wrong.html
http://vachristian.org/Biblical-Sexuality/Gay-Olympians-are-accidentally-proving-why-same-sex-marriage-is-wrong.htmlFebruary 16, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – While the mainstream media’s fawning coverage of gay and lesbian Winter Olympic athletes is relentless, the most important story out of Pyeongchang, South Korea is underreported, if not completely ignored.

A surprising message delivered by gay men is being displayed for all the world to see in the Gangneung Olympic Ice Arena.

The three "out" gay male figure skaters in this year's Winter Olympics are partnered with women, not men, precisely because their sport is wholly reliant on complementarity.

Without the complementarity of the male and female skaters, the event ceases to exist.

Powerful speakers on vital issues that every pro-family person needs to know!

A very important presentation.

The radical ideology of "gender" has been a foundation of the propaganda that has fueled the sexual revolution. It's a big part of how feminism, sexuality, homosexuality, transgenderism, and more are being sold to (and forced on) the public. This will help you understand it.Jennifer Roback Morse, PhD., founder and president of the Ruth Institute. The mission of the Ruth Institute is to put a stop to family breakdown -- being caused by the sexual revolution.

When I entered the mall bookstore, I wasn’t headed to the “Self Help” Section, but that’s exactly where I found myself. Little did I know that I was moments away from a Divine Encounter that would answer the question I had been pondering for years: what did God Almighty have to say about homosexuality?

My eyes scanned the book titles in search of something that would grab my attention. Nothing pushed my button, but I became curious over a little book so thin that the title could not be printed on its spine. I gently pulled it out and when I saw the title, Where to Look in the Bible, I knew something extraordinary was about to happen.

The Senate General Laws Committee approved a pro-homosexual bill (SB 202, Ebbin-D) by a vote of 12-3 to add “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” (SOGI) to current Virginia “anti-discrimination” laws for state and local government employees equating sexual orientation and gender identity with race, sex, religion, etc. as protected classes of workers. Then the bill quickly moved to the full Virginia State Senate which quickly passed the measure 29 -10 with 10 Republicans voting YES. Recap below.

With pad and pen in hand, I sat down to watch the assembly on “sex changes” that occurred at George Mason High School prior to Christmas break. It was quite difficult to sit through the entire presentation. It actually made me sick to my stomach but the need to see it myself in order to share, kept me enduring through the ordeal to the end.

A Northern Virginia public school held a school-wide assembly before Christmas break featuring transgender crusader Amy Ellis Nutt.

George Mason High School in the City of Falls Church brought in Nutt, a Washington Post reporter, to lecture students on her book Becoming Nicole, about a boy who "identified" as a girl as a toddler, had his puberty suppressed as a child, and was castrated as a teenager.

Nutt's lecture hit all the usual notes. Your gender is "assigned at birth" by people who might get it wrong. Toddlers can be transgender. Moray eels change sex and female reef fish produce sperm when there are no males. "Gender is a spectrum," everyone must get "comfortable" with new gender language that is "changing every day." Asking a biological boy to use the teachers' rather than the girls' restroom is "bullying."

In the beginning of the 60’s movement, Mallory Millett witnessed this junta of moral thugs, with her sister as a nationally recognized leader, practice a typical Communist exercise in which they would partake in a back-and-forth chant while describing what they were going to do: make revolution…a cultural Revolution by destroying the American family. They chanted that they would destroy the family by destroying American patriarchs —fathers/men—by taking away his power. They planned to do that by destroying monogamy.

December 4, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – An Italian Catholic doctor accused by LGBT activists of defamation after she highlighted in a Facebook post the skyrocketing rates of sexually transmitted disease among homosexuals has been found not guilty.

LGBT group Torino Pride had made the accusation against Dr. Silvana De Mari, alleging that in declaring homosexuality a “health hazard” she had defamed homosexuals.

De Mari, a surgeon and psychotherapist, was acquitted on the grounds that it would be impossible to ascertain who would have suffered injury because of her broad statement. De Mari said in her defense that it was clear that homosexuality was not a normal condition, referencing her own expertise, Breitbart reports.

“I have three specialties: psychotherapy, medicine and surgery,” she said. “I have been taking care of homosexual persons for 40 years.”

Acceptance of homosexuality is now considered a ‘done deal’ by most Americans. Not that they all like it, but like abortion and other immoral actions, they feel that society has moved in a downward spiral and there is no use fighting back for change.

For those who want to be abreast of the changing attitudes on sodomy, homosexuality, gay, and LGTBQ, here are statements for your consideration. Most statements below would now be denied by the LGTBQ activist.

Same-sex and gender confused people are fundamentally disordered and their sexual acts are immoral.

There’s no question that sexual assault is an epidemic in the U.S. There’s no question that we are right to be outraged by the brutish behavior of Hollywood bigshots like Harvey Weinstein and that such behavior should result in serious consequences of both the social and legal variety. The real question is: When will we open our collective eyes and recognize that widespread sexual misbehavior is an inevitable byproduct of a sex-saturated culture?

Our opposition to indecent behavior seems to be a mile wide and an inch deep. While we are remarkably unified in our disdain for sexual harassment and assault, that galvanized opposition doesn’t extend to the epidemic’s underlying causes. We’re complacent toward the cultural trends that constantly push sex and sexuality upon our conscious and subconscious thoughts, the efforts to deaden our sensibilities and erase the boundaries that once defined a concept of decency.

On Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, anonymous evangelical Anglicans posted a 95 Theses-style complaint on the doors of five British cathedrals. The first complaints went up on the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther's posting of the 95 Theses on the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church in Germany, and the documents pinned to the doors referenced Luther in calling for the Church of England to follow the Bible on LGBT issues.

In the spring of his final year as a movie mogul, Harvey Weinstein was doing what he always did. Or rather what he always did in public view: as opposed to what he has been accused of doing in hotel rooms and deserted office storage rooms. He was fighting a ratings war over a movie with adult content.

The movie was 3 Generations. It had been made two years earlier to cash in on the transgender boom. Back then it was called About Ray. But the reviews were bad and the movie was pulled a few days before it was supposed to be released. What do you do with a bad politically correct movie that you paid $6 million for? You start a culture war. And that’s exactly what Harvey Weinstein did.

He enlisted GLAAD, the gay rights group, to lobby for a PG-13 rating for the newly renamed movie.

Every so often, there is a moment of sanity that pushes back against transgender activism in the sports world, although the reaction to the sane decision is often anything but sane. And so it happened in Australia, where, “A male-female transgender athlete has been blocked from taking part in next year’s Australian Rules Football professional women’s league, according to the BBC.

Did you get that? A biological male, who identifies as a female, will not be able to play for the female branch of Australian Rules Football. As the league explained, it took into consideration “transgender strength, stamina, physique, along with the specific nature of the AFLW.”

During the reign of King Obama a decree was issued by Attorney General Holder adding gender identity and transgender to protection status under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Prior to that decree, Title VII specifically barred employers from discriminating against employees based on sex, race, color, national origin and religion.

Last week Attorney General Jeff Sessions withdrew the 2014 Obama era policy that made sexual orientation a protective status. Sessions wrote in the Memorandum: “Title VII expressly prohibits discrimination ‘because of…sex’…and several other protected traits, but it does not refer to gender identity. “Sex” is ordinarily defined to mean biologically male or female.

]]>jbayard316@verizon.net (Linda Wall)Biblical SexualitySun, 15 Oct 2017 12:23:26 -0400Gender Ideology Harms Childrenhttp://vachristian.org/Biblical-Sexuality/Gender-Ideology-Harms-Children.html
http://vachristian.org/Biblical-Sexuality/Gender-Ideology-Harms-Children.htmlThe American College of Pediatricians urges healthcare professionals, educators and legislators to reject all policies that condition children to accept as normal a life of chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex. Facts – not ideology – determine reality.

1. Human sexuality is an objective biological binary trait: “XY” and “XX” are genetic markers of male and female, respectively – not genetic markers of a disorder. The norm for human design is to be conceived either male or female. Human sexuality is binary by design with the obvious purpose being the reproduction and flourishing of our species. This principle is self-evident. The exceedingly rare disorders of sex development (DSDs), including but not limited to testicular feminization and congenital adrenal hyperplasia, are all medically identifiable deviations from the sexual binary norm, and are rightly recognized as disorders of human design. Individuals with DSDs (also referred to as “intersex”) do not constitute a third sex.1